ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR 1848- The Pleasures of Reading (Rectorial Address)

The ballad (by F.B.  Gummere)
   Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
   The Hunting of the Cheviot
   Johnie Cock
   Sir Patrick Spens
   The Bonny Earl of Murray
   Mary Hamilton
   Bonnie George Campbell
   Bessie Bell and Mary Gray
   The Three Ravens
   Lord Randal
   Edward
   The Twa Brothers
   Babylon
   Childe Maurice
   The Wife of Usher’s Well
   Sweet William’s Ghost

Honore de Balzac (by William P. Trent) 1799-1850
   The Meeting in the Convent (’The Duchess of Langeais’)
   An Episode Under the Terror
   A Passion in the Desert
   The Napoleon of the People (’The Country Doctor’)

George Bancroft (by Austin Scott) 1800-1891
   The Beginnings of Virginia (’History of the United
     States’)
   Men and Government in Early Massachusetts (same)
   King Philip’s War (same)
   The New Netherland (same)
   Franklin (same)

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

Volume iii.

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Page
Ancient Irish Miniature (Colored Plate) Frontispiece
“St. Augustine and His Mother” (Photogravure)   1014
Papyrus, Sermons of St. Augustine (Fac-simile)  1018
Marcus Aurelius (Portrait)                      1022
The Zend Avesta (Fac-simile)                    1084
Francis Bacon (Portrait)                        1156
“The Cavaliers” (Photogravure)                  1218
Honore de Balzac (Portrait)                     1348
George Bancroft (Portrait)                      1432

VIGNETTE PORTRAITS

Emile Augier
Jane Austen
Robert Aytoun
Walter Bagehot
Jens Baggesen
Philip James Bailey
Joanna Baillie
Henry Martyn Baird
Sir Samuel White Baker
Arthur James Balfour

(Continued from Volume II)

“Do you imagine that every one is kindly disposed towards you?  Take my word for it, a palace contains people of all sorts, good and bad.  All the vices abound in such a place.  And there are many other matters of which you have no idea, and of which you will, I trust, ever remain ignorant.  But all you meet are wondrous polite.  Try to remain just as you now are, and when you leave the palace, let it be as the same Walpurga you were when you came here.”

Walpurga stared at her in surprise.  Who could change her?

Word came that the Queen was awake and desired Walpurga to bring the
Crown Prince to her.

Accompanied by Doctor Gunther, Mademoiselle Kramer, and two waiting-women, she proceeded to the Queen’s bedchamber.  The Queen lay there, calm and beautiful, and with a smile of greeting, turned her face towards those who had entered.  The curtains had been partially drawn aside, and a broad, slanting ray of light shone into the apartment, which seemed still more peaceful than during the breathless silence of the previous night.